Game of Thrones

[IdolEyes787]

Or not.Fucking rumours.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/06/18/ga...ones-season-5/

[Zangaknight]

How does the show compare to the books?

[megabyteme]

How does the show compare to the books?

Books fit on a moderate shelf better
Colors are more present on show
Show has voices and special effects
More actors in the show
Electronic shows (unless captured) tend to be gone when no longer broadcast
Shows require cable/High-Speed Internet and electricity
Books require visible lighting

Books require imagination; shows require tolerance of HBO scripting changes
Tits. You get more tits with the show.

[IdolEyes787]

How does the show compare to the books?

Because of budgetary constraints limiting the FX,on the TV show Dany is now referred to as "The mother of cats" and instead of people being burned alive they drown in hairballs.
Also HBO didn't think that the audience would warm to a dwarf as one of the pivotal characters so on the series Tyrion is played by David Hasselhoff.

[megabyteme]

[megabyteme]

[Stehle]

Thank you for the above posts on GoT!

(I have all the audio books of GoT.... if I listened to the first one would I be safe to assume it would not ruin the HBO series so fat?)

(Btw,, "Mr Mercedes" by SK is very good too.)

[piercerseth]

The ones read by Roy Dotrice? They're great. You can get away with reading all of ASoS, if you skip the epilogue.

A lot of the storyline in books 4 & 5 happen simultaneously so I'm currently listening to him read the two in this hybrid order (mild spoilers further down the page).

[Rart]

- Big ass picture -

I feel like that "Whoever said history was boring" quote is pretty misleading and a poor comparison. Yes, there are parallels to major figures in history but unlike in Game of Thrones they weren't all occurring at the same time, they weren't in the same small piece of the world, and they weren't intricately intertwined with eachother like they are in the books. The books are clearly a dramatization of the events they (could've been) inspired from, and while it isn't to say that history is painfully boring, it isn't exactly that Game of Thrones has revealed "history" for the hip, awesome, cool grandmother that no one ever knew about or something.

On another note...

Spoiler: Show

LSH confirmed axed from the show.

The only thing I'm clinging on to now is the hope that it was just a play on words... alluding to the fact that Catelyn is, well, dead. In more ways than one.

It seems like the show is deviating from the books more and more these days...

[megabyteme]

The takeaway I had from that, as someone who only watches the show, was GRRM had not entirely created this world of characters and events himself. I found it interesting from the perspective of someone who is currently a little better than half-way through a Master's degree in English (how did I ever get here?) how a writer could draw from a historical base without creating a history book.

Similarly, the show writers/producers are working from the books without creating an exact copy. Keeps it interesting to watch, doesn't it?

Readers of the book know of main events and characters in much the same way history buffs may know of events/bloodlines/battles without knowing what lies fully ahead. There's also the perspective of the actors who choose to not know their character's fate, as well as those of us either too illiterate/lazy/willing to wait for the shows to air to learn what direction the show will take the story.